Research Area A - Publications 2013

PNAS, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1317973110, vol. 110 no. 52 published on 24.12.2013
PNAS, online article
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Volume changes associated with protein folding reactions contain valuable information about the folding mechanism and the nature of the transition state. However, meaningful interpretation of such data requires that overall volume changes be deconvoluted into individual contributions from different structural components. Here we focus on one type of structural ...

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Chemistry, 2013, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201303189, Volume 20, Issue 3, pages 694–703 published on 20.12.2013
Chemistry, online article
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Conformational changes in proteins and peptides can be initiated by diverse processes. This raises the question how the variation of initiation mechanisms is connected to differences in folding or unfolding processes. In this work structural dynamics of a photoswitchable β-hairpin model peptide were initiated by two different mechanisms: temperature jump (T-jump) ...

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J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2013, DOI: 10.1021/ct400713t, 10 (1), pp 122–133 published on 17.12.2013

J. Chem. Theory Comput., online article

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The structural sensitivity of NMR chemical shifts as computed by quantum chemical methods is compared to a variety of empirical approaches for the example of a prototypical peptide, the 38-residue kaliotoxin KTX comprising 573 atoms. Despite the simplicity of empirical chemical shift prediction programs, the agreement with experimental results is rather good, ...

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Chemistry of Materials, 2013, DOI: 10.1021/cm402592t, 26 (1), pp 435–451 published on 03.10.2013
Chemistry of Materials, online article
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Nanosized mesoporous silica particles with high colloidal stability attract growing attention as drug delivery systems for targeted cancer treatment and as bioimaging devices. This Perspective describes recent breakthroughs in mesoporous silica nanoparticle design to demonstrate their high potential as multifunctional drug delivery nanocarriers. These types of ...

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J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, DOI: 10.1021/ja405076j, 135 (40), pp 15085–15091 published on 10.09.2013
J. Am. Chem. Soc., online article
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The CH3 homodimer at the C-terminal end of the antibody heavy chain is the key noncovalent interaction stabilizing antibody proteins. Here, we use single-molecule force spectroscopy to investigate the dissociation mechanics of CH3 as a proxy for antibody mechanical stability. We find the CH3 homodimer to be a highly stable complex, and its dissociation force of ...

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JACS, 2013, DOI: 10.1021/ja403229y, 135 (39), pp 14593–14599 published on 27.08.2013

JACS, online article

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Three new cytosine derived DNA modifications, 5-hydroxymethyl-2′-deoxycytidine (hmdC), 5-formyl-2′-deoxycytidine (fdC) and 5-carboxy-2′-deoxycytidine (cadC) were recently discovered in mammalian DNA, particularly in stem cell DNA. Their function is currently not clear, but it is assumed that in stem cells they might be intermediates of an active demethylation ...

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PNAS, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1303515110, vol. 110 no. 32 12905-12910 published on 06.08.2013
PNAS, online article
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The dynamics of peptide α-helices have been studied extensively for many years, and the kinetic mechanism of the helix–coil dynamics has been discussed controversially. Recent experimental results have suggested that equilibrium helix–coil dynamics are governed by movement of the helix/coil boundary along the peptide chain, which leads to slower unfolding ...

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Z. Naturforsch., 2013, doi:10.5560/ZNB.2013-3068, 68b, 423 – 444 published on 02.07.2013
Z. Naturforsch., online article
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In this article, we discuss how fluorescence microscopy techniques are used to investigate important characteristics of porous silica materials. We start with a discussion of the synthesis, formation mechanism and functionalization of these materials. We then give an introduction to single molecule microscopy and show how this technique can be used to gain deeper ...

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Methods in Enzymology, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-388422-0.00009-1, Volume 518, Pages 205–243 published on 30.06.2013
Methods in Enzymology, online article
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Pulsed interleaved excitation (PIE) is the methodology of interleaved or alternating excitation of different fluorophores on the nanosecond timescale, which allows quasi-simultaneous, yet independent measurements to be performed. PIE simplifies quantification of several fluorescence techniques such as FCCS and FRET experiments. Foremost, it allows to specifically ...

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Angewandte Chemie, 2013, DOI: 10.1002/ange.201302727, Volume 125, Issue 30, pages 7920–7925, published on 21.06.2013
Angewandte Chemie, online article
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Single molecule mechanical techniques like AFM or optical tweezers provide insight into the conformational dynamics of macromolecules and allow reconstructing details of the free energy landscapes that direct such processes.1 Single-molecule mechanical assays have been successfully applied to analyze large conformational changes like the ones that occur in ...

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J. Org. Chem., 2013, DOI: 10.1021/jo4009673, 78 (13), pp 6721–6734 published on 10.06.2013
J. Org. Chem., online article
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Selective binding of the phosphate-substituted molecular tweezer 1a to protein lysine residues was suggested to explain the inhibition of certain enzymes and the aberrant aggregation of amyloid petide Aβ42 or α-synuclein, which are assumed to be responsible for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, respectively. In this work we systematically investigated the ...

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The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2013, doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2013.04.005, Volume 104, Issue 11, 2373-2382 published on 04.06.2013
Biophysical Journal, online article
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The interactions and coordination of biomolecules are crucial for most cellular functions. The observation of protein interactions in live cells may provide a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms. After fluorescent labeling of the interacting partners and live-cell microscopy, the colocalization is generally analyzed by quantitative global methods. ...

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small, 2013, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201301004, published on 17.05.2013
small, online article
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In this study, it is shown that the cytotoxic response of cells as well as the uptake kinetics of nanoparticles (NPs) is cell type dependent. We use silica NPs with a diameter of 310 nm labeled with perylene dye and 304 nm unlabeled particles to evaluate cell type-dependent uptake and cytotoxicity on human vascular endothelial cells (HUVEC) and cancer cells ...

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Nano Lett., 2013, DOI: 10.1021/nl400681f, published on 13.05.2013
Nano Lett., online article
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Mesoporous nanoparticles for drug delivery would benefit significantly from further improvements in targeting efficiency and endosomal release. We present a system based on colloidal mesoporous silica nanoparticles with targeting-ligands and a red-light photosensitizer. This nanoparticle system provides spatial and temporal control of the release of drugs into ...

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Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50204J, 15, 9392-9396 published on 10.05.2013
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., online article
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The calculation of molecular response properties in dynamic molecular systems is a major challenge that requires sampling over many steps of, e.g., Born–Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BO-MD) simulations. We present an extrapolation scheme to accelerate such calculations for multiple steps within BO-MD trajectories or equivalently within other sampling methods of ...

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J. Chem. Phys., 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4801084, P138, 174104-1, published on 01.05.2013
J. Chem. Phys., online article
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An atomic-orbital (AO) based formulation for calculating nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shieldings at the second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory level is introduced, which provides a basis for reducing the scaling of the computational effort with the molecular size from the fifth power to linear and for a specific nucleus to sublinear. The latter ...

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The EMBO Journal, 2013, doi:10.1038/emboj.2013.89, 32, 1639 - 1649 published on 26.04.2013
The EMBO Journal, online article
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The numerous functions of the important class of molecular chaperones, heat shock proteins 70 (Hsp70), rely on cycles of intricate conformational changes driven by ATP-hydrolysis and regulated by cochaperones and substrates. Here, we used Förster resonance energy transfer to study the conformational dynamics of individual molecules of Ssc1, a mitochondrial Hsp70, ...

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Acta Neuropathol, 2013, DOI: 10.1007/s00401-013-1114-9, 795-813 published on 19.04.2013
Acta Neuropathol, online article

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In neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and prion diseases, deposits of aggregated disease-specific proteins are found. Oligomeric aggregates are presumed to be the key neurotoxic agent. Here we describe the novel oligomer modulator anle138b [3-(1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-5-(3-bromophenyl)-1H-pyrazole], an aggregation ...

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J. Chem. Phys., 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4796441, 138, 134114, published on 04.04.2013
J. Chem. Phys., online article
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We present a simple but accurate preselection method based on Schwarz integral estimates to determine the significant elements of the exact exchange matrix before its evaluation, thus providing an asymptotical linear-scaling behavior for non-metallic systems. Our screening procedure proves to be highly suitable for exchange matrix calculations on massively ...

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The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2013, doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.456327, 288, 12102-12113 published on 13.03.2013
The Journal of Biological Chemistry, online article
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The actin cytoskeleton is a central mediator of cellular morphogenesis, and rapid actin reorganization drives essential processes such as cell migration and cell division. Whereas several actin-binding proteins are known to be regulated by changes in intracellular pH, detailed information regarding the effect of pH on the actin dynamics itself is still lacking. ...

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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2013, doi:10.1038/nsmb.2523, 20, 508–514 published on 10.03.2013
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, online article
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ADP-ribosylation is a reversible post-translational modification with wide-ranging biological functions in all kingdoms of life. A variety of enzymes use NAD+ to transfer either single or multiple ADP-ribose (ADPr) moieties onto distinct amino acid substrates, often in response to DNA damage or other stresses. Poly-ADPr-glycohydrolase readily reverses ...

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Nanomedicine, 2013, doi:10.2217/NNM.12.178, Pages 1-14 published on 05.02.2013
Nanomedicine, online article
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This study examines the absolute quantification of particle uptake into cells. Methods: We developed a novel method to analyze stacks of confocal fluorescence images of single cells interacting with nano- and micro-particles. Particle_in_Cell-3D is a freely available ImageJ macro. During the image analysis routine, single cells are reconstructed in 3D and split ...

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Structural Biology, 2013, doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2012.11.007, Volume 23, Issue 1,Pages 48–57 published on 04.02.2013
Structural Biology, online article
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Force spectroscopy has developed into an indispensable tool for studying folding and binding of proteins on a single molecule level in real time. Design of the pulling geometry allows tuning the reaction coordinate in a very precise manner. Many recent experiments have taken advantage of this possibility and have provided detailed insight the folding pathways on ...

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Peptide Science, 2013, DOI: 10.1002/bip.22171, Volume 100, Issue 1, pages 38–50 published on 19.01.2013
Peptide science, online article

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The intramolecular and intermolecular vibrational energy flow in a polyproline peptide with a total number of nine amino acids in the solvent dimethyl sulfoxide is investigated using time-resolved infrared (IR) spectroscopy. Azobenzene covalently bound to a proline sequence containing nitrophenylalanine as a local sensor for vibrational excess energy serves as a ...

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